The birth of military cinematography during World War I in America by the U.S. Signal Corps. Film by Cooper C. Graham and Ron van Dopperen, first presented on December 1, 2017, at an international conference on the history of military films in Namur, Belgium.
Footage and still pictures are from the World War I Signal Corps collection in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Additional film from the Imperial War Museum in London, copied for academic research purposes which constitute a fair use of copyright.
With special thanks to Harry B. Kidd for sharing his outstanding pictures of World War I cameramen.